Music
Gaza: Shouting from Soapbox Tops
Gaza is not an “anti-“ band. Anti-religion or anti-Mormon, anti-meat or anti-you, Gaza is more about things than against them. … read more
Skinny Puppy visits Salt Lake City without a new album.
On the proverbial eve of Skinny Puppy’s third show in Salt Lake City since officially reforming in 2003, vocalist and mad showman Nivek Ogre (aka Kevin Ogilvie) seems to be in a fine mood…despite my interrupting a Skinny Puppy rehearsal and the fact that their current label, SPV, has filed for insolvency, essentially putting the status of the newest Skinny Puppy album in limbo. … read more
Rock n Roll Academy: Rock Out 4 Life
Playing music should be fun—it shouldn’t feel like you are doing chores or homework. At least that’s how Dave Payne and Mike Sartain feel about things. “We teach students how to enjoy music for the rest of their lives,” says Payne. At the Rock ‘n’ Roll Academy the list of rules is short. The most striking of them is “Mandatory Pleasure and Happiness.” … read more
Prize Country: Treacherous Treasures and Tour Tales
Being the “old guys” suits Prize Country. The band’s maturity shows in its tight, but raw, sound that is as brash as it is groovy. … read more
GWAR: Granny Sex, Crack & Heavy Metal
There is no correct reason to worship GWAR, there is only a wrong way and that way is not on their knees. A lot of old people like GWAR. … read more
Localized: Aye Aye, Sleepover, The Kidneys – November 2009
This month SLUG’s Localized bring you the folkie-blusey psychedelia of Aye Aye, twee pop from Sleepover and opening band The Kidneys. It all happens on Fri. Nov. 13 at The Urban Lounge. Five bucks gets you in. … read more
Converge: The Kurt Ballou Interview
I sat down with Kurt Ballou, guitar mastermind of Converge and recording guru of Godcity Studio, before their show Oct. 10 in Denver. He had a lot to say. We got to talking about high school bands, solar powered cars and of course, the new Converge album. … read more
Dethklok @ Fillmore Auditorium (Denver)
Initially, this seemed like a strange bill of bands, but in hindsight it offered Dethklok the chance to showcase some talented, lesser-known bands, and allowed those talented, lesser-known bands to lend even more credibility to the metal mythos of Dethklok. … read more
Matt Winegar
Matt Winegar is a local producer, audio engineer and musician. All this he sums up tersely as “making records.” “Lots of kids get confused by this,” he says. As he explained why this is the case, we spoke of recording studios and the state of musical technology in the broadest sense––drums and wires, but also the body parts and skills that make up the total experience music. … read more
Terrance DH
Terrance DH’s introduction to recording was an accident, really. In the early 90s, his band Bad Yodelers were recording with an engineer who had a bad habit of disappearing for three to four hours at a time. To deal with the engineer’s disappearing act, the Yodelers’ drummer sat Terrance behind the console and taught him the basics of recording. “I would hit play and record and they would do takes of their drums,” DH says.
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Dave Payne
When he’s not busy being a father of twins, fixing up his house, performing with several bands, or up late playing arcade games in his basement, Dave Payne is at the helm of his very own recording studio known as Spaceship Arcade Studio. … read more
Jud Powell
When an average person walks into a room, they don’t think about how it could potentially be set up for proper sound diffusion, if the space has adequate reverberation time for the size of the ambient and/or if it is provided with low levels of reflection. Jud Powell can’t help but think about all of these factors and more. … read more
